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Is there any use for something like a hopper that dispenses new marbles continuously?
1. Students will frequently just try things until it works, move code around, etc., leading to very messy code. 2. Graders often do not look at individual assignments unless there is a reason to do so, often relying on automated test suites. And when they do look, I'd bet their first reaction is something like "I don't know why they're repeating themselves like this, but my rubric only penalizes them for 5 points here..."
As it turns out, a lot of student code can look this way anyway. Something crazy like 70% of authentic student code can have dead code in assignment submissions.
For the roman emperor prompt, Bard produced:
17 white men
2 white women
1 black man
1 black woman
For your prompt, Bard produced:
21 black men*
Interestingly, for the Roman Emperor prompt, Bard never refused to produce an image, though once instead of an image it only produced alt-text for two images, and once it only produced a single image, while for the African Oba prompt, three times it insisted it could not produce an image of that, once it explained that it is incapable of producing images, and once it produced only a single image rather than a pair.
*After typing most of this reply, I went to run more to see if it would ever behave differently, and on the 22nd image it produced an image of a black woman.